A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount Vesuvius eruption may actually be a fossilised brain, researchers have revealed. Glass rarely forms ...

Scientists have discovered the reason behind the transformation of a young man's brain to glass following the eruption of ...

Glass rarely forms naturally from organic materials. However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance ...

A rare organic glass was found inside a skull from Herculaneum’s 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. Researchers determined that a super ...

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...

In a paper published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, archaeologists and volcanologists show that the shards of black glass found in the skull of a young man who died when Mount ...

A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super-hot ash cloud hit ...

A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount Vesuvius eruption may actually be a fossilised brain, researchers have revealed. Glass rarely forms ...

Scientists were stunned to find dark fragments resembling obsidian in the skull of a man who died in ancient city of Herculaneum during the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The eruption had somehow ...

Scientists made the surprise discovery while examining the body of a man who was killed in the ancient city of Herculaneum ...